Verse 34
1 Kings 20:34
Geneva Bible
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And Ben-hadad sayd vnto him, The cities, which my father tooke from thy father, I wil restore, and thou shalt make streetes for thee in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will let thee goe with this couenant. So he made a couenant with him, and let him goe.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֡י/ו הֶ/עָרִ֣ים אֲשֶׁר לָֽקַח אָבִ/י֩ מֵ/אֵ֨ת אָבִ֜י/ךָ אָשִׁ֗יב וְ֠/חוּצוֹת תָּשִׂ֨ים לְ/ךָ֤ בְ/דַמֶּ֨שֶׂק֙ כַּ/אֲשֶׁר שָׂ֤ם אָבִ/י֙ בְּ/שֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וַ/אֲנִ֖י בַּ/בְּרִ֣ית אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑/ךָּ וַ/יִּכְרָת ל֥/וֹ בְרִ֖ית וַֽ/יְשַׁלְּחֵֽ/הוּ
English Translation
And he said to me, "The cities which my father took from your father, I will return, and the streets I will give to you in Damascus, as my father placed in Samaria. And I will make a covenant with you, and he made a covenant with him, and he sent him away."
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then Ben-hadad the King of Aram assembled all his armie, and two and thirtie Kings with him, with ho...
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And he sent messengers to Ahab King of Israel, into the citie,
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And sayd vnto him, Thus sayth Ben-hadad, Thy siluer and thy golde is mine: also thy women, and thy f...
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And the King of Israel answered, and sayd, My lord King, according to thy saying, I am thine, and al...
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And when the messengers came againe, they said, Thus commandeth Ben-hadad, and saith, When I shall s...
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Or els I will sende my seruants vnto thee by to morow this time: and they shall search thine house,...
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Then the King of Israel sent for all the Elders of the land, and sayd, Take heede, I pray you, and s...
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And all the Elders, and all the people sayd to him, Hearken not vnto him, nor consent.
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Wherefore hee sayde vnto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lorde the King, All that thou didddest...
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And Ben-hadad sent vnto him, and sayde, The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria b...
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And the King of Israel answered, and sayd, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth his harneis, boast him...
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And when he heard that tidings, as he was with the Kings drinking in the pauilions, he sayd vnto his...
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And beholde, there came a Prophet vnto Ahab King of Israel, saying, Thus sayeth the Lord, Hast thou...
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And Ahab sayd, By whome? And he sayde, Thus sayth the Lord, By the seruants of the princes of the pr...
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Then he nombred the seruantes of the princes of the prouinces, and they were two hundreth, two and t...
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And they went out at noone: but Ben-hadad did drinke till he was drunken in the tentes, both he and...
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So the seruants of the princes of the prouinces went out first: and Ben-hadad sent out, and they she...
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And he sayde, Whether they be come out for peace, take them aliue: or whether they bee come out to f...
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So they came out of the citie, to wit, the seruants of the princes of the prouinces, and the hoste w...
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And they slew euery one his enemie: and the Aramites fled, and Israel pursued them: but Ben-hadad ye...
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And the King of Israel went out, and smote the horses and charets, and with a great slaughter slew h...
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(For there had come a Prophet to the King of Israel, and had sayd vnto him, Goe, be of good courage,...
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Then the seruants of the King of Aram said vnto him, Their gods are gods of the moutaines, and there...
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And this doe, Take the Kings away, euery one out of his place, and place captaines for them.
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And nomber thy selfe an armie, like the armie that thou hast lost, with such horses, and such charet...
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And after the yeere was gone about, Ben-hadad nombred the Aramites, and went vp to Aphek to fight ag...
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And the children of Israel were nombred, and were all assembled and went against them, and the child...
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And there came a man of God (Elohim), and spake vnto the King of Israel, saying, Thus sayeth the Lor...
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And they pitched one ouer against the other seuen dayes, and in the seuenth day the battel was ioyne...
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But the rest fled to Aphek into the citie: and there fel a wall vpon seuen and twentie thousand men...
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And his seruants sayd vnto him, Beholde nowe, we haue heard say that the Kings of the house of Israe...
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Then they gyrded sackecloth about their loynes, and put ropes about their heads, and came to the Kin...
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Now the men tooke diliget heede, if they could catch any thing of him, and made haste, and sayd, Thy...
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And Ben-hadad sayd vnto him, The cities, which my father tooke from thy father, I wil restore, and t...
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Then a certaine man of the children of the Prophets sayd vnto his neighbour by the comandement of th...
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Then sayd he vnto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voyce of the Lord, beholde, as soone as thou...
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Then he founde another man, and sayde, Smite mee, I pray thee. And the man smote him, and in smiting...
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So the Prophet departed, and wayted for the King by the way, and disguised himselfe with ashes vpon...
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And when the King came by, he cried vnto the King, and said, Thy seruant went into the middes of the...
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And as thy seruant had here and there to do, he was gone: And the King of Israel said vnto him, So s...
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And hee hasted, and tooke the ashes away from his face: and the King of Israel knewe him that he was...
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And he said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let goe out of thine handes a man whom...
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And the King of Israel went to his house heauie and in displeasure, and came to Samaria.
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